And maybe that’s it.

Maybe the challenge of this moment is to find grace and gratitude even in the darkest hour.

Even in the most painful realization. In the most chaotic whirlwind. In the storm that threatens to sweep you off your feet. Accept that you do not always have to have it all together.

To acknowledge that to be strong can mean to be extremely soft and tender. Vulnerable and raw.

And to hold yourself and be held in this space. The only way out is through.

To know that to be a warrior does not necessarily mean to fight until the end, but to know when to put down your weapons and armour.

To realize that the deepest form of love is to be with all there is, exactly as it is.

Holding on tightly to that force within our chest that gently whispers across the howling winds: „You are safe here."

You are right. You are right here. Right here and now.

Take a deep breath. Focus on how far you have already come.

Let it all out. There is nowhere to go but to sit with all your anger and grief and endless compassion and kindness and to reassure yourself you are on your way. To healing. To remembering. To growing. To shining.

In this moment and the next.

“I want to believe that the rupture has a purpose on and of its own.

It is a crack, a vessel, it is a suspended space between 'already' and 'not yet'.
And this is where time stops, where we can find the missing pieces, the patience to revisit, and the strength to release what we have tried to skip - this is the space where we are learning to honor that we have lost something.

It is the space where I am learning to lean into the mourning of a life before this, of a love, of a soul, of a friendship dear to my heart, and of an old version of self.

It is the space where I then become the rupture, the crack, the vessel
- opening myself to the beginning of a new cycle as I open myself to the endings engrained.

And in this process of revisiting, grieving, and releasing - the opposition is dissolved, and the cycle comes full circle.

It is being brought into wholeness.

Now, the beginning of something new is already there.

All there is left to do is to join - that's the raw magic of beginnings.”
inspired by Yule Burlefinger